Simon at Douai Abbey in Berkshire where we visited old old friend Fr Hugh Somerville-Knappmann OSB (Scott to us!). This is Watership Down country... so they say. It's been a tough day (not personally, but academically).
At my last meeting, one of my supervisors told me that I had to 'confront my aestheticizing tendencies.' I think this means that I tend to just say 'wow, that idea is way COOL!' (in academic language) rather than actually provide arguments. Or, I narrate: just wheel in some biblical narrative and assume that it does all the work for me.
Re-reading my stuff, I realise how true this is. Now I have to go and actually provide some substance. Probably, you long-suffering blog readers knew this months ago!
1 comment:
I can sympathise. I tend to describe rather than argue and as a result I can say what everyone else thinks but my own arguments can be a bit weak. Last week my supervisor told me that the image be got when reading my work was of a small python trying to swallow an elephant. That unfortunatly means that it is time for a big rewrite.
All the best with it.
JRS
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